The endless road ends
All that I denied is now accepted
The blackness of eternity beckons
leaving me this brief moment
I cling to even
as a smothered candle’s glow lingers for
just that moment more
and then only darkness arrives
as the shade slowly draws across
my teary eyes
Now just this single thought I have
left to speak
just a whisper
just a gentle whisper
through my patched flaked lips
But the hissing gauges erase
any faint trace
My final words lost
seemingly so very important
like all else
in my life........